Re: nearing the home stretch

Hi James,

James Muir wrote:
[...]
> I've created my directories using 'module-starter' and it automatically 
> created a nice set of templates which I have been revising. The 
> Makefile.PL only shows my main module, Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView. I'm 
> wondering if I need to include the names of the remaining modules under 
> lib in the Makefile.PL? If so, where in the Makefile.PL do I place them?
> 
> I did try make manifest as above and got:
> 
> (/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView)>make manifest
> make: *** No rule to make target `manifest'.  Stop.
> 
> which makes sense to me, since I haven't even created a make file yet.

Don't put all of your modules in Makefile.PL. Presumably, they are in 
the lib/ subdirectory. Now, to build a distribution for uploading to 
CPAN, do the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make manifest
make test
make dist

Then, it's best to test the resulting tar.gz file as if you just 
downloaded it from CPAN.

Move it to /tmp or so. Extract it with tar -xzvf Foo.tar.gz.
Confirm that all of your modules are in lib/ and all files you wanted to 
ship with your module are in the tarball.
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
If all tests pass, make install if you wish. If everything works, upload 
it via pause.perl.org.

Steffen